Dang Ben…be careful out there buddy! We need you in good shape to create a lot more videos.
Scuba Certification
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Fully Certified - Well done Sir,
I did it! And I don’t care if I ever dive in a deep, dark, cold Kentucky quarry ever again!
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Well, you’ve now gone further than most people ever will. That is a success in itself
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@BanjoBen Congrats…Now that you are certified you can literally “Dive into” those lessons now
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And with the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas and other tropical waters, who needs quarries anyhow? Congratulations on your certification!
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Congratulations! Do you think you will continue to dive? I have often thought about learning to dive to look for artifacts on the bottom of the river. Have you ever had any intest in Native American Artifacts? I bet you could find some cool stuff doing that.
I would love to do stuff like that, yeah. I just wasn’t a fan of this quarry diving. I’m claustrophobic and have a fear of being strangled, so this was a big mental challenge for me. It took a lot for me not to panic at times, being 50’ deep in a freezing quarry, low vis and dark, water filling up my mask that didn’t fit right, etc. It didn’t help that the quarry had a Halloween theme going on, so there were zombies stashed here and there that you would uncover as you swam. Ha! I look forward to warmer, clearer waters and staying above 40’ deep!
You won’t get any clearer than Flathead Lake up in Montana. I’ll let you dive and tell me where all the whitefish like to hide.
I will, as soon as you find me a .300 mag that never fails to fire underwater.
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Ya ready for the Dead Sea now?
The RED Sea, yes…I’d need to haul a couple banjos with me to the Dead Sea if I expect to sink. haha
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Oh yes of course. I bet even your banjo would float on the Dead. The Red then. And don’t forget the Med; is that doable?
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Probably not on this trip I have planned, but I would sure love to!
How does your body (mainly the ears) deal with water pressure at that depth? Mine start hurting when I swim to the bottom of a 10’ pool.
I have to stop ever 6-10’ and equalize…nearly everyone does. The way you do it is to hold your nose from outside your mask and lightly blow to pop your ears. My instructor has dived to 230’ feet before, and he said that you don’t have to equalize as much the deeper you go. I can guarantee that I will never be able to confirm that by experience.
@BanjoBen That has to be very pitch black that deep down. And then having to resurface don’t you have to stop for a while to get repressurized going back up? No thanks, either 230’ up or down is quite a ways.
Yes, you have to have pressure stops of several minutes along the way to acclimate. I learned that you do everything slowly in scuba. He was doing a tactical dive down into Dean’s Blue Hole, I believe. He had to have lights, of course, and two 80 pound O2 tanks on his back. He said he got into a school of some kind of huge sharks at that depth, swimming all around him.